SSRS migration from 2008 to 2016

Question

We need to migrate SSRS 2008 to SSRS 2016 which includes:

• All RDL reports
• Subscriptions
• User Access

I cannot find any tool, ca

Answer 1

There is no migration tool unfortunately. I did the same process (2008 -> 2016) late last year and below are the notes I made while I was going.

I've replaced my server names with generic names and in my case the old setup had SSRS running on a different server to the database engine so when you see OLD_DB_SERVER_NAME and OLD_SSRS_SERVER_NAME they may actually be the same server in you case.

Hope you find this useful.

Answer 2

There is no such thing.. you simply have to open the 2008 report in a new version of report designer or Visual studio and upload it to 2016. This "upgrades" the report. I'm pretty sure you can just upload the 2008 versions to 2016 as well..